Keith Black 
Companion to Medical Anthropology 

Ethnomedicine is a term that refers to a wide range of healthcare systems (structures), practices, beliefs, and therapeutic techniques that arise from indigenous cultural development. Ethnomedicine is alsotaken to mean the study of these systems and techniques more so from the sense of placing them intoan anthropological context rather than evaluating their effectiveness using the scientific method. Thisbook is richly illustrated with figures, diagrams, photographs and tables. The book contains differentchapters based on the original research work by eminent academicians and scientists. This book willsatisfy the needs of students, researchers, scientists and experts of this field. We are confident that thisbook will serve as a key source of information on this field. It offers the most relevant and conciseinformation available in the world today on this field.This book is very well made making the matter veryclear without any ambiguity, covering all main topics of this branch. Language of the book is very simplefor the students to follow.This book will be a unique contribution to this field.